Synonyms of tolbooths

tolbooths

noun

plural of tolbooth, Scottish

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

Deacon Brodie, thought to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was publicly hung at the site of the old tolbooth of Edinburgh

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jails
• prisons
• penitentiaries
• big houses
• bastilles
• brigs
• jailhouses
• pens
• quods
• coolers
• bridewells
• hoosegows
• jugs
• stockades
• coops
• lockups
• guardrooms
• cages
• hocks
• cans
• pokeys
• nicks
• clinks
• calabooses
• bull pens
• tanks
• stirs
• joints
• cells
• slams
• dungeons
• concentration camps
• slammers
• holds
• prison camps
• labor camps
• holes
• work camps
• wards
• guardhouses
• stalags
• hulks
• training schools
• blocks
• reform schools
• keeps
• glasshouses
• gulags
• reformatories
• oubliettes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides